The TV just happened to be on Miami Vice (no, really).
However, I noticed in the credits that Laurence Fishburne (as
a corrupt prison guard) was in the episode, so I decided to
stick. However, the credits held something even more
surprising. Credited as co-producer was Dennis Cooper. Okay,
I figured, that's got to be a pretty common name. It's not
necessarily the same guy who wrote Frisk -- talk about creepy
and disturbing noir with an unreliable narrator, a gay serial
killer (or is he, the latter, he is most definitely the
former), as we recently were. So I looked him up at
www.imdb.com. According to them, Cooper wrote for both Miami
Vice (I missed the writing credit on this episode) and Hill
Street Blues a decade or so before Frisk. Can it really be
the same guy? Also, imdb showed a movie was made of Frisk.
Has anyone seen it? I can't imagine it getting less than an
NC-7 if it is even close to faithful to the book.
Mark
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